Category Archives: Blogging

Protecting email addresses

Posted on June 18, 2008 by bengt

When creating my new coach directory, CoachGuiden (in Swedish only), I wanted to protect the email addresses from those that harvest for spam purposes. I found CryptX, author page at CryptX (in German), which works very well. See more in … Continue reading →

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WordPress and SEO

Posted on June 16, 2008 by bengt

I came across a great article about WordPress and SEO, search engine optimization. The article is WordPress SEO – Definitive Guide To High Rankings For Your Blog and includes eight sections about different things to consider in order to make … Continue reading →

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Zemanta – Blog me up!

Posted on June 8, 2008 by bengt

I got WordPress Firefox Add-on: Zemanta from Hack WordPress in my mail today. Zemanta looks like a very interesting tool for bloggers. They currently support WordPress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com, and self-hosted WordPresses from version 2.0 onwards. Have your browser understand what … Continue reading →

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Blogs about WordPress

Posted on May 29, 2008 by bengt

I have found some useful blogs about WordPress that I have added to the feeds I subscribe to. In no special order they are WordPress Expert, All4wordpress, Hack WordPress and WordPress Max.

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Put your best foot forward

Posted on May 27, 2008 by bengt

I had a manually created list of My Favourite Posts in the right hand menu before. It worked but not as easy as I wanted it too. Today I came across the Best Foot Forward widget which allows you to … Continue reading →

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WordPress and spam problems

Posted on April 20, 2008 by bengt

One of my other blogs got targeted with spam comments, all aimed for one specific post. I did turn of comments for that post but that did not help, I have gotten 5,200 spams in a short period of time. … Continue reading →

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A terrific blog design style guide

Posted on April 19, 2008 by bengt

Blog Design has posted How to Blog Design Style Guide. It is a terrific walk through of the different parts of a blog with suggestions on how to improve them. I will get back here and see what I can … Continue reading →

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How to subscribe to blogs

Posted on April 13, 2008 by bengt

Brian Clark at Copyblogger asks Will RSS Ever Go Mainstream? The article sets RSS versus email but I do not see it that way. The important thing to me is that readers follow a blog, not which way they prefer … Continue reading →

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How to handle links in a smarter way

Posted on April 12, 2008 by bengt

Over at Hack WordPress is a post titled How To: Hiding Your Affiliate Links using WordPress. A simple one line PHP-page is created for each link and placed on your own site. You then link to this PHP-page instead of … Continue reading →

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Skellie and The Simple Web, a free eBook

Posted on March 16, 2008 by bengt

Skellie, of Skelliewag and Anywired, has created a great free eBook, a 27-page eBook version of a series of posts that appeared on Skelliewag in 2007. It is open source and as Skellie writes “do whatever you want with it: … Continue reading →

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